Planning in Health Promotion Work

Amdam, Roar

doi:10.4324/9780203842522

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“…In general, HiAP is confronted with strong political expectations for creating action, but this operative work is not without conflict. 30,31 This suggests that the planner's role means that it may be necessary to mediate between several actors about who does what, when and at what cost. Common to this operative planning, when accepted, is that there is a binding implementation contract.…”

Section: Does Hiap Prioritise Obtaining Results Over the Democratic P...mentioning

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“…Planning processes and planning documents that are in accordance with laws and regulations can achieve a high degree of regulative legitimacy 30,31 . Thus, HiAP's degree of regulative legitimacy depends on the extent to which the planning and public health work are in accordance with current laws, regulations, decisions and other plans.…”

Section: How the Practice Of Hiap Deals With The Dilemmasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Health in All Policies” in Norwegian municipalities—Dilemmas and lack of legitimacy and capacity

Amdam

2023

Health Planning & Management

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According to the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, public health work in Norway is regarded as a multi‐actor collaboration based on planning and partnership for the purpose of enabling people to increase their control over their health and its determinants. HiAP builds largely on the governance and communicative turn in the public sector and thus exists in the shadow of a vertical government structure with sectors, silos and a chain of command. In practice, HiAP challenges the established way of thinking and acting in the silos and tries to create a more holistic understanding and handling of problems and needs. In order to successfully involve different sectors and government levels in this work, HiAP requires strong democratic legitimacy and institutional capacity. In this article, we discuss the empirical research data on the HiAP approach in Norway within the context of theory on collaborative planning processes and legitimising political capacity to act. Our research question is whether the HiAP approach in Norwegian municipalities have sufficient democratic legitimacy and institutional capacity to achieve the purpose of public health work. In general, we find that HIAP as practised in Norwegian municipalities does not function as a complete political legitimising and capacity building process. The practice contains several dilemmas, and there is a need to distinguish between different forms of legitimacy and capacity.

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Section: Does Hiap Prioritise Obtaining Results Over the Democratic P...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How the Practice Of Hiap Deals With The Dilemmasmentioning

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“Health in All Policies” in Norwegian municipalities—Dilemmas and lack of legitimacy and capacity

Amdam

2023

Health Planning & Management

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“…This issue might be related to the legitimacy of the HiAP approach. A key element for translating plans into action is ownership; the argumentation in the plan needs to be experienced as meaningful by those using it [16]. When asking the informants in this municipality about their regulative public health mechanisms, they did not appear to have much ownership.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…As a collaborative entity, HiAP therefore becomes a legitimacy-seeking institution. This new institutional perspective indicates that in order to gain legitimacy, municipalities can use their planning and management system as a legitimising process to establish coherence between the norms, values and beliefs in the institution and in the context [16]. However, different municipal departments might have different norms and values, as well as different views and understandings of what is desirable or appropriate [17].…”

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Legitimising Inter-Sectoral Public Health Policies: A Challenge for Professional Identities?

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Amdam²,

Fosse

2019

International Journal of Integrated Care

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The 2012 Norwegian Public Health Act stipulates that all Norwegian municipalities need to integrate public health concerns in their decision-making processes at all policy levels. Based on a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, population health and health equity are seen as whole-of-government responsibilities, making all municipal actors across sectors and professional boundaries responsible for health issues. Although many municipalities are well on their way towards implementing this goal, several experience a lack of legitimacy and inter-sectoral collaboration, as well as encounter conflicting professional identities. Theory and Methods: In this interview-based case study, we investigate the legitimacy of the HiAP approach in three Norwegian municipalities. We use an institutional perspective to analyse legitimacy, and we discuss how professional identities might relate to the implementation of this inter-sectoral collaboration. Results: Our findings suggest that the three municipalities are in the process of legitimising HiAP. Further, that legitimacy based on the integration of HiAP in planning and management structures and in formal documents seems easier or less complicated to achieve than other types of legitimacy related to personal understanding, values and norms. Conclusions and discussion: We argue that these findings may be related to the possible risk of identity conflicts, which could potentially pose challenges to collaborations, such as HiAP, and then again challenge the implementation of integrated care.

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“…Implementation of the NPHA is progressing, but is still challenging [6–8]. Even though they are agents for the welfare state and are included in an implementation chain of policies at the national, regional and local levels [9], municipalities are not expected to copy public health work from the NPHA. Municipalities are expected to make adjustments at the local level and they have the freedom to choose how to handle the complex field of public health work.…”

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Public health terminology: Hindrance to a Health in All Policies approach?

Synnevåg

Amdam

Fosse

2017

Scand J Public Health

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This paper promotes debate about the appropriateness of using the terms 'public health' and 'public health work' at the local level. It suggests that adaptation is suitable and necessary, unless it compromises knowledge, responsibility and a systematic approach. This study concludes that the use of terminology is a central factor when implementing the Norwegian Public Health Act at the local level.

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Planning in Health Promotion Work

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“Health in All Policies” in Norwegian municipalities—Dilemmas and lack of legitimacy and capacity

“Health in All Policies” in Norwegian municipalities—Dilemmas and lack of legitimacy and capacity

Legitimising Inter-Sectoral Public Health Policies: A Challenge for Professional Identities?

Public health terminology: Hindrance to a Health in All Policies approach?

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